193. Warren Spector on the New Ultima Underworld and System Shock Sequels

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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🗓️ 12 March 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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0:00.0	Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to episode 193 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.
0:24.0	Today on the show we'll be speaking with legendary game designer Warren Specter,
0:28.0	who's worked on games such as Ultima Six, Wing Commander, Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Theaf, DayeS X, Ultimate Garret, who was our guest back in episode 105, so definitely check that out if you missed it.
0:45.8	Last month Warren announced that he was leaving his position teaching game design at
0:48.8	UT Austin in order to join Otherside Entertainment, a new company that includes many former employees of the widely admired game developer Looking Glass Studios.
0:58.0	Last year, Otherside ran a successful kick-starter to fund Underworld A spiritual sequel to Ultimate Underworld A Underworld, a spiritual sequel to Ultimate Underworld.
1:04.7	The company also recently announced plans to create System Shock 3.
1:08.5	And you can learn more about both games over at otherside Entertainment.com. And now here's our interview with Warren
1:14.2	Specter. All right, so we're here with Warren Specter. Welcome to the show.
1:18.3	Great to be here. Thanks for having me. Okay, so I saw that Bruce Sterling was your first dungeon master.
1:24.4	So tell us about that.
1:26.2	Yeah, a friend of mine invited me to go play Dungeons and Dragons one night in 1978. I heard about the game but I'd never played it.
1:37.0	So I said, sure, I'll give it a try and went over there and turned out we were going to Bruce Sterling's house.
1:43.6	I'd been to parties with him and he was a friend of mine, but had never played with him.
1:49.6	And after that night, ended up playing in his campaign, among many others. But I ended up playing in his campaign,
1:53.0	uh... among many others but i ended up playing at bruce's campaign for ten years
1:59.0	it was it was pretty incredible actually it was
2:02.3	uh... an Asian themed campaign I was part of the
2:06.5	rat gang in the river city of Chang and we rose from gutter rats to to to to real powers in this universe.
2:14.5	It was pretty amazing.
2:16.0	Yeah, and I've heard you say that he was the best DM ever.
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